Dr Brecht Deseure (ULB/KBR, FedTWin) has brought together 282 pages of drafts of the Belgian Constitution, debated and adopted in record time by the National Congress between November 1830 and February 1831.
This volume collects texts by Simon Merlin, Antoine Becart, Ferdinand Paridaens, Charles-Hyppolyte Vilain XIIII, Charles Moulan, Adolphe Bayet, Louis Glorieux, Joseph Mouremans, Joseph-Ferdinand Toussaint, François Grenier, Joseph Forgeur, Jean-Pierre Barbanson, Joseph-Stanislas Fleussu, Charles Liedts, Victor Delecourt, Charles Moulan, as well as several anonymous texts.
The editor has also prepared bio-bibliographical notes in Dutch, French, and English.
In the appendices, readers will find the draft Belgian Constitution of the Provisional Government, the text of the Constitution of February 1831, together with a chronology, a bibliography, and an index of names and subjects.
The Royal Commission for the Publication of the Ancient Laws and Ordinances of Belgium welcomes the availability of this work of primary importance for a broad audience through the website rechtsreeks.be (an initiative of the Library of the Faculty of Law and Criminology at KU Leuven).
The international significance of this publication is reflected in its association with the ERC Advanced Grant project ReConFort (University of Passau), within whose framework the volume has been published.
The book includes a foreword by the then Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Vincent Van Quickenborne (pp. 5–7).
The text can be accessed at this link.
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